Chapter Twenty-eight

The major problem --- one of the major problems, for there are several ---
one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom
you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them
do it to them.

To summarize: it is a well known fact, that those people who most want
to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To
summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves
made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To
summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

And so this is the situation we find: a succession of Galactic
Presidents who so much enjoy the fun and palaver of being in power
that they very rarely notice that they're not.